Northern Alliance claims prison siege is over

Afghanistan’s de facto government, the Northern Alliance, claimed today that it has crushed the Taliban uprising in a prison outside Mazar-e-Sharif following three days of intense fighting.

Northern Alliance claims prison siege is over

Afghanistan’s de facto government, the Northern Alliance, claimed today that it has crushed the Taliban uprising in a prison outside Mazar-e-Sharif following three days of intense fighting.

An advisor to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum said all the prisoners in the Qalai Janghi fortress are now dead and the prison is once again under Alliance control.

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